Improvement in dress and skirt-protectors



i tnitrd gime @anni @Mire Leners Patent No; 96,797, dated Nummer 1e, 1869.

IIVIPROVEMENT IN DRESS SKIRT-PROTECTORS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent andmaking part of the same.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Mrs. A. H. GRATQX, of Lawrence, in the county of Douglas, and State of Kansas, have invented a new and improved Dress-Protector; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which willenable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming` part ot' this speeitication.

My invention is an improvement in skirt-protectors; and

The improvement-consists in the construction, and in the inode of attaching the skirt-protector to the person of the wearer, as hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings, my invention isrepresentedas applied to the person of the-wearer, part being broken away, to show the distending-ring and the arrangement of' the skirts.

A represents the exterior, and B, the interior part of an annular' sack, formed by sewing the lower edge of the interior `part to the part A, a short distance above the -lower edge of the latter, and providing it with outer suspending-straps C, and interior straps D, the former connecting,r with a waisthelt, E, and the latter hooking on to one of the lower hoopsof` the hop-skirt.

The bottoms of the skirts are stowed in this sack,

and thus protected from damage hy the mud and wa ter, when walking.

To prevent the aecmnnlated weight oi' the skirts causing,r the protector Ato press inward against the ankles of the person, :1t one or more points, thus rendering easy or graceful movement impossible, besides soiling the bottoms of the hose or nnder-skirts, I have provided a ring, a, for dstending the protector, and causing it to assume and retain the form oi'a cirele.

' l am aware that the elements of my combination, separately considered, are found in existing patents, but I claim nothing therein shown.

What I consider as my invention, and dezire t.) proteet by Letters Patent, is-

The dress protector herein described, when oomposed ot` the parts A B, united as shown, provided with a distending-iing, a, and adapted to be attached to the person of the wearer by the outer straps Gand waist-belt E, and the short interior straps D, and their hooks e, by-which they are attached to the lower portion of the skirt,all ashereinbefore shown and described.

MRS. A. H. GRATON.-

Witnesses:

Ro'rj. It. DUNBAR, .WIr-s. MARY HART. 

